Large-scale assessment of global oil and gas carbon intensity

Mukherjee, M, J Littlefield, H Khutal, K Kirchner-Ortiz, K Davis, L Jing, F Ramadan, H El-Houjeiri, M Masnadi, and A Brandt. “Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the US Liquefied Natural Gas Operations and Shipping through Process Model Based Life Cycle Assessment”, Communications Earth & Environment, 6, no. 1 (January 19, 2025): 16. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01988-2.

Negron, A, E Kort, G Plant, A Brandt, Y Chen, C Hausman, and M Smith. “Measurement-Based Carbon Intensity of US Offshore Oil and Gas Production”, Environmental Research Letters, 19, no. 6 (May 28, 2024): 064027. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad489d.

Jing, Liang, Hassan El-Houjeiri, Jean-Christophe Monfort, James Littlefield, Amjaad Al-Qahtani, Yash Dixit, Raymond Speth, Adam Brandt, Mohammad Masnadi, Heather MacLean, William Peltier, Deborah Gordon, and Joule Bergerson. “Understanding Variability in Petroleum Jet Fuel Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions to Inform Aviation Decarbonization”, Nature Communications, 13, no. 1 (December 21, 2022): 7853. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35392-1.

Masnadi, Mohammad, Giacomo Benini, Hassan El-Houjeiri, Alice Milivinti, James Anderson, Timothy Wallington, Robert De Kleine, Valerio Dotti, Patrick Jochem, and Adam Brandt. “Carbon Implications of Marginal Oils from Market-Derived Demand Shocks”, Nature Research, 599, no. 7883 (November 3, 2021): 80–84. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03932-2.

Kang, Mary, Adam Brandt, Zhong Zheng, Jade Boutot, Chantel Yung, Adam Peltz, and Robert Jackson. “Orphaned Oil and Gas Well stimulus—Maximizing Economic and Environmental Benefits”, Science of the Anthropocene, 9, no. 1 (April 28, 2021): 00161. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2020.20.00161.

Nie, Yuhao, Siduo Zhang, Ryan Liu, Daniel Roda-Stuart, Arvind Ravikumar, Alex Bradley, Mohammad Masnadi, Adam Brandt, Joule Bergerson, and Xiaotao Bi. “Greenhouse-Gas Emissions of Canadian Liquefied Natural Gas for Use in China: Comparison and Synthesis of Three Independent Life Cycle Assessments”, Journal of Cleaner Production, 258 (June 10, 2020): 120701. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120701.

Jing, Liang, Hassan El-Houjeiri, Jean-Christophe Monfort, Adam Brandt, Mohammad Masnadi, Deborah Gordon, and Joule Bergerson. “Carbon Intensity of Global Crude Oil Refining and Mitigation Potential”, Nature Climate Change, 10 (June 2, 2020): 526–532. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0775-3.

Masnadi, Mohammad, Hassan El-Houjeiri, and Dominik Schunack. “Global Carbon Intensity of Crude Oil Production: New Data Enable Targeted Policy to Lessen GHG Emissions”, Science, 361, no. 6405 (August 31, 2018): 851-53. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aar6859.

Brandt, Adam, Mohammad Masnadi, Jacob Englander, Jonathan Koomey, and Deborah Gordon. “Climate-Wise Choices in a World of Oil Abundance”, Environmental Research Letters, 13, no. 4 (April 5, 2018): 044027. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aaae76.

Masnadi, Mohammad, Hassan El-Houjeiri, Dominik Schunack, Yunpo Li, Samori Roberts, Steven Przesmitzki, Adam Brandt, and Michael Wang. “Well-to-Refinery Emissions and Net-Energy Analysis of China’s Crude-Oil Supply”, Nature Energy, 3 (February 26, 2018): 220–226. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-018-0090-7.

Masnadi, Mohammad, and Adam Brandt. “Climate Impacts of Oil Extraction Increase Significantly With Oilfield Age”, Nature Climate Change, 7 (July 17, 2017). https://doi.org/0.1038/nclimate3347.

Masnadi, Mohammad, and Adam Brandt. “Energetic Productivity Dynamics of Global Super-Giant Oilfields”, Energy & Environmental Science, 10 (May 23, 2017): 1493-1504. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7EE01031A.

Tripathi, Vinay, and Adam Brandt. “Estimating Decades-Long Trends in Petroleum Field Energy Return on Investment (EROI) With an Engineering-Based Model”, PLoS ONE, 12, no. 2 (February 8, 2017): e0171083. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0171083.

“Energy Intensity and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Oil Production in the Eagle Ford Shale”, Energy Fuels, 31, no. 2 (January 8, 2017): 1440–1449. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.6b02916.

Cooney, Gregory, Matthew Jamieson, Joe Marriott, Joule Bergerson, Adam Brandt, and Timothy Skone. “Updating the U.S. Life Cycle GHG Petroleum Baseline to 2014 With Projections to 2040 Using Open-Source Engineering-Based Models”, Environmental Science & Technology, 51, no. 2 (November 22, 2016): 977–987. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.6b02819.

Englander, Jacob, Adam Brandt, Amgad Elgowainy, Hao Cai, Jeongwoo Han, Soina Yeh, and Michael Wang. “Oil Sands Energy Intensity Assessment Using Facility-Level Data”, Energy & Fuels, 29, no. 8 (June 27, 2015): 5204–5212. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.5b00175.

Cai, Hao, Adam Brandt, Sonia Yeh, Jacob Englander, Jeongwoo Han, Amgad Elgowainy, and Michael Wang. “Well-to-Wheels Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Canadian Oil Sands Products: Implications for U.S. Petroleum Fuels”, Environmental Science & Technology, 49, no. 13 (June 9, 2015): 8219–8227. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.5b01255.

Englander, Jacob, Sharad Bharadwaj, and Adam Brandt. “Historical Trends in Greenhouse Gas Emissions of the Alberta Oil Sands (1970–2010)”, Environmental Research Letters, 8, no. 4 (November 18, 2013): 044036. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/044036.

Brandt, Adam, Jacob Englander, and Sharad Bharadwaj. “The Energy Efficiency of Oil Sands Extraction: Energy Return Ratios from 1970 to 2010”, Energy, 55 (June 2013): 693-702. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2013.03.080.

Brandt, Adam. “Response to Comment on ‘Variability and Uncertainty in Life Cycle Assessment Models for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Canadian Oil Sands Production’”, Environmental Science & Technology, 46, no. 7 (February 15, 2012): 4254. https://doi.org/10.1021/es300426p.